Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1918 — SAVE THE HENS. [ARTICLE]

SAVE THE HENS.

Washington, D. C., Jan. 4.—Every laying hen sold from the farms before the first of May means a loss of about 30 eggs to the food supply of the nation. These eggs are valuable food, manufactured largely from insects, weeds, and grass, garbage and waste. The eggs, therefore, are almost wholly a net gain in human food. Moreover, the hen is just as good meat after she has laid these eggs as before. SAVE THE HENS is the message that the United States Department of Agriculture is sending broadcast through the press notices and posters, and through its county agents, especially in the southern poultryraising section.